Category: Hosting Basics

Deploying and managing a robust WordPress website on cloud platforms such as Liquid Web or Amazon Web Services (AWS) becomes significantly easier when utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to leverage the capabilities of modern cloud-based web hosting infrastructure. Liquid Web can provide the resources and guidance you need to get started.

Liquid Web’s Cloud has a robust Application Programming Interface (API) that allows for accessing your account from outside the my.liquidweb.com interface. For example, the API can be used to manage and integrate many things directly into your cloud infrastructure. Ranging from the Liquid Web Command Line Interface (LW CLI) utility, our Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) provider, to the Web Host Manager Complete Solution (WHMCS), — the list is endless. 

Django is a full-featured Python web development framework that is free and open source. It provides several tools to improve software development and is used to create dynamic frameworks and applications. It also includes a set of tools for building scalable web applications.

Many options are available when considering which operating system (OS) to use for web hosting. In that context, a popular Linux distribution is often brought up. So, what is CentOS exactly in the world of Linux OSs? The Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS) is an open-source operating system centered around Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code.

If you're a web developer, you've most likely heard about Git, GitHub, DevOps, and GitOps. While DevOps and GitOps are similar approaches to improving the software development process, GitOps is the more modern pathway used today. As companies grow and their software teams expand, they must control their software development while improving efficiency and workflow. But, getting down to brass tacks, what is GitOps really? Let's uncover all that is involved with it.

What is Hyperscale?

The technology industry is dominated by cloud computing companies offering public and hybrid cloud services for personal and business use. Companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook are the prominent giants in the cloud services market and are constantly expanding their businesses into related technologies. Their exponential growth in cloud services is thanks to technology known as hyperscale.

Manually managing your servers can be a hassle. It requires you to either know a lot about hosting and server administration or to pay for and work with a professional who will do it on your behalf.

Optimizing a Content Management System (CMS) in the context of web applications is a frequent occurrence today. Whether you're running your own WooCommerce site, Shopify store, or WordPress blog, having a website that runs efficiently is paramount for your success. Over time, WordPress sites have increased, which isn't surprising since they are customizable and have thousands of themes and plugins.

Since it was created, WordPress has always had a way to communicate with your website remotely — including different blogging platforms and desktop clients — in order to interact with it. As one of the early software platforms involved, the XML-RPC API system is comprised of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) for encoding its calls with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) used as the transport protocol.

As web applications become more complex and tasked with doing more, the demand puts stress on IT teams and their infrastructure. If you pair that with the expectation that development timelines should be shorter to accommodate quicker deployment strategies, then software companies are in a bind. Tech companies have a trump card they can use to make development easier, even under the increasing pressure of time constraints.